I forwarded this info to the person responsible for the client. She told
me that the system rebooted over the weekend (for a yet to be determined
reason) and that this morning's scheduled backup ran fine. Apparently the
reboot took care of things. I am pretty sure that she had not done one
after upgrading to TSM.

Thank for the information!

Nancy Reeves
Technical Support, Wichita State University
Nancy.Reeves AT wichita DOT edu          316-978-3860




Richard Sims <rbs AT BU DOT EDU>
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02/18/2001 01:45 PM
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        Subject:        Re: ANS9281E when TSM Space Mgmt is not installed


>A coworker tried to upgrade an AIX box with the TSM 4.1 client (from ADSM
>3.something) and when she tried a backup, she got
>ANS9281E Space management kernel extension is downlevel from the user
>program.

Nancy - It sounds like the client system was up and running the HSM
        client code when the client was upgraded - which is a bad thing
to do.  The installation apparently planted new HSM code and then tried
to load and run it - which could not succeed because of the prevaiing,
old kernel extension.

In that system you will likely see /etc/inittab with an entry for
starting HSM (ADSM Spaceman) by invoking /etc/rc.adsmhsm .
That did the kernel extension load when the AIX system was booted,
via 'installfsm -l ...'.  You can query by invoking with the -q
option, and unload the kernel extension via -u.

HOWEVER: Depending upon the level of the AIX system, it may not support
the HSM client you are trying to install.  Review the configuration to
decide how to proceed.  Your install may have displaced the original
software, including /etc/* ingredients.  Proceed carefully so that the
data in the HSM file systems will be accessible once things are resolved.

  Richard Sims, BU